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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why in Part 4, does Buntu try to get Sizwe to leave the street outside the bar quickly?

2. At the end of Part 4, what does Buntu collect after Sizwe drunkenly stumbles off?

3. What was Buntu's suggestion about what he had found in the alleyway?

4. What happens to Sizwe when he tries to get home from the bar with Buntu?

5. According to the preacher, at death, the soul gets to go...?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore the ways the playwright uses unseen characters such as Sizwe's wife, Noweto, and Zola to suggest aspects of the main characters' lives outside of the action on stage. In your answer, take note of the fact that there are no white characters mentioned in the play, only the general authority they hold over blacks in South Africa.

Essay Topic 2

Is the framing device of the letter to Noweto a foundation for the rest of the action, a means to getting out information that cannot easily be staged, or both? Explain your answer with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Given the desperation of the situation in which blacks found themselves in Apartheid-era South Africa, is it honorable or dishonorable for Sizwe to claim the identity of a dead man? Explain your answer with examples from the text.

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